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What is a product that you won’t accept a generic alternative for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, if you insist on buying Advil instead of store brand ibuprofen. I mean, you’d be wasting your money in that example, but you do you

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[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting because Hanes is a "cheap" brand to me. I've never had socks that properly fit my feet my entire life and recently I treated myself to some Feetures and holy shit I'll never wear another brand of socks again.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't pretend that they're premium socks or anything, they're just not the generic socks that're like, "value premium" or whatever store brand sock. Or even just the unlabeled.